Show 1 1 1 evl 1 TAKE THINGS moderately 0 I 1 la in bait salt lake like city on mandzy e evening venil last a young woman shot and 6 killed her tier bet betrayer tayer feigning a love for her which he did not feel and ia intent 1 only upon his own animal gratification he bis his purpose and then turned hia his back upon his victim nothing more oiw cowardly I 1 or brutal could ba conceived of 0 tats side of taking life in addition to the other wrongs and perhaps death I 1 would rather lighten than add to the eor of the situation the tile girl had hid ample provocation and the lift best proof of this is the tile fact I 1 that he the community where the homicide occurred is all but unanimously on her side the n newspapers with one accord bestow I 1 tri butis butas of praise and elen even officers of the law have no words of condemnation for her this is all doubtless as tia natural tural as it could be that society in which tee me seducer can ply his villainous vocation without let lot or hindrance I 1 ii is depraved and on the way to 0 o ruin and 1 those who succeed in their I 1 infernal fernal pt business should be made to ander understand 1 beforehand lint that their lives are the forfeit so far eo to good now let ui ul consider the whole question because to run to extremes or create sensation al I 1 effects even though the slain richly reserved ae deserved served d his fate is unhealthful and has a tendency to beget weakness I 1 in in the law and uncertainty in its enforcement miss olson violated the law by usurping its functions and as a matter of form she s should hould be prosecuted of course eha she will not be convicted nor should she be but he the justification should come from tho the jury box pot not from that false and mis leading sentiment which would ignore I 1 her act altogether let lot tuch a course of action once take root and it will soon be difficult to determine where sentiment should leave off and justice begin again we bold hold that tho the lionizing W which bo the unfortunate lady is receiving la Is in bad taste and baa has a tendency toward bad effect being a woman of judgment as well as a nerve doubtless ehe would suppress adyth anything g of 0 f the kind if eho title could it is calca calculated to create about he the same condition in certain weak mindi minds that is produced by reading lurid backed literature I 1 in a which stories of impossible heroism 1 I 1 and devotion devoti ont coupled with a species of ollove love which amounts tg insanity I 1 hairbreadth hair breadth escapee escapes bloodcurdling blood curdling I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 Z 4 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 situations and the wildest kind of romance that is 10 the reader at once becomes the hero or heroine astae as the case may way be and can hardly be restrained from going on the war path at once trifling incidents are taken advantage of to maka make dramatic displays of valor or gallan gallantry and when the tile victim ha has it bad ha he is likely to be dangerous a s it is moral ly certain that hat he is nearly always A menace where ho he is not other otherwise alse a n nuisance u 1 common sense Is the golden rule to ba governed by in this as in a all 11 other conditions in life misa mies olson has done nothing morally wrong it is only legally wrong and there ia is nothing bothin g sufficiently stringent lathe in the law when applied to such facts as obtain in her case to place her in the slightest danger let matters now take a normal coarse course |